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Trump on China: Is a Taiwan deal in the works?

President Donald Trump, right, points as reporters raise their hands to ask questions during a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, obstructed at left, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Monday, October 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

President Trump disclosed this week that talks with China on trade and other issues could result in some type of deal on Taiwan, an unofficial U.S. ally facing the prospect of a future Chinese military takeover.

Trump: Cattle ranchers ‘don’t understand’ his efforts to protect beef industry, grocery consumers

Cattle graze on a ranch in Lufkin, Texas, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Trump pleaded Wednesday for understanding from American cattle ranchers after the industry and GOP lawmakers criticized his plan to buy beef from Argentina to bring down consumer prices.

Cattle graze on a ranch in Lufkin, Texas, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, who founded The Washington Times alongside her husband, the late Rev. Sun Myung, delivered the keynote address at the Global Rally for the Reunification of Korea at Seoul’s World Cup Stadium. (PHOTO CREDIT: HSA-UWC) (sponsored)

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Halloween candy and decorations are displayed at a store, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Freeport, Maine. U.S. sales of In this year of the pandemic, with trick-or-treating still an uncertainty, Halloween candy were up 13% over last year in the month ending Sept. 6, according to data from market research firm IRI and the National Confectioners Association. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Small Business Administration administrator Linda McMahon, left, and President Donald Trump listens to a reporters question during a meeting of the President's National Council of the American Worker in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Small Business Administration administrator Linda McMahon, left, and President Donald Trump listens to a reporters question during a meeting of the President's National Council of the American Worker in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump anti-DEI education compact still waiting for a ‘yes’ as Arizona declines, Vanderbilt dodges

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Jeff Merkley’s marathon speech keeps going in Senate to protest Trump’s policies

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